The fall wireless show which I'm attending here in San Francisco is typically lower key and more enterprise focused than the big spring show, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's keynote today was a bit of a snoozer for anyone who isn't an IT manager.
The big announcement was Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, a server application which pumps up IT departments' abilities to manage and deploy Windows Mobile gadgets. Mobile Device Manager lets Windows Mobile administrators deploy applications remotely, manage many devices from a unified console, turn devices' features (like cameras) on and off remotely and provision multiple phones with policies over the air. To a large extent, it's designed to give Microsoft's infrastructure the same management capabilities that RIM's Blackberries have always been famous for.
Mobile Device Manager won't work with all current devices, though. It will work with the AT
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